Assessing Disclosure Risk for Record Linkage

  • Authors:
  • Chris Skinner

  • Affiliations:
  • Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom SO17 1EF

  • Venue:
  • PSD '08 Proceedings of the UNESCO Chair in data privacy international conference on Privacy in Statistical Databases
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

An intruder seeks to match a microdata file to an external file using a record linkage technique. The identification risk is defined as the probability that a match is correct. The nature of this probability and its estimation is explored. Some connections are made to the literature on disclosure risk based on the notion of population uniqueness.